Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman? — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest… — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Copy Share Image
“We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music -… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Since once again, Lord - though this time not in the forests of the Aisne but in the steppes of Asia -… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops:… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
